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Patrick: Most reps want Henriquez to resign

Sentinel & Enterprise

Updated:
02/03/2014 09:58:45 AM EST

More than two weeks after he first recommended that Rep. Carlos Henriquez give up his House seat following his conviction on assault and battery charges, Gov. Deval Patrick remains convinced that the Dorchester Democrat should resign.

"There's no reason for me to think that at this point that an elected representative who's been convicted by a jury of a crime as serious as this should remain in the House and I think that's the consensus view of his colleagues," Patrick said during a television interview with Jon Keller of WBZ that aired on Sunday morning.

Keller raised the issue, reminding Patrick that Henriquez attorney Stephanie Soriano-Mills recently suggested that the representatives case had not been tried before a jury of his peers because the jury was all-white.

Patrick said he did not know all the details of the jury selection process in the Henriquez case, but noted that during his career as an attorney he had been involved in cases where the jury selection process had been tainted.

Henriquez, who is appealing the jury's verdict, has appeared twice before the House Ethics Committee since his conviction. He is serving a six-month jail sentence in Billerica.

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